There have been some sporadic efforts to try and get modem-over-VoIP
working on the Collectors Net (
www.ckts.info) but it's tricky and results
can be inconsistent. Eventually we do hope to be able to fully support all
modes that were used with the POTS network. For local demos, just within
your own premises, you can use an old PBX, a Cisco multiservice router, or
an Asterisk machine to provide a decent facsimile of the POTS network given
a few computers with modems. Now that I have so many POTS ports available,
it makes me wish that I had kept more modems!!
Last time I checked, there are still some Telnet based boards out there...
A not trivial number of them probably run Synchronet because the author
continues to maintain the software for use with current versions of Windows
and Linux:
http://www.synchro.net/
There's a little BBS list on the site; you should find at least a few of
them to be active (well, at least, "up").
That's not to mention UNIX based conferencing systems a little bit outside
the vein of the traditional PC-based BBS experience (i.e. Grex) which have
managed to survive to modern times as well.
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Eric Smith <spacewar at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Ali <cctalk at
fahimi.net> wrote:
Even if not this BBS if someone knows of any good
BBSes running off of a
good old Dial Up (anywhere in continental USA) or Telnet I'd love to hear
about them.
I couldn't possibly comment on whether any qualify as "good BBSes", but
here's a list of 30 US dialup BBSes:
http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/dialbbs/dialbbs.htm